Glassdoor Reviews API
The Glassdoor Reviews API returns the employee reviews of a company on Glassdoor, up to 100 per page: each review's title, pros, cons, advice to management, overall and category ratings, date, job title, location, employment type, years employed, recommendation, CEO approval, business outlook, helpful votes and employer responses. It also returns the company's profile and its ratings, which follow the rating, employment type, current employee, job title and location filters but not the keyword or language. Reviews can be sorted and filtered by rating, employment type, current employees, job title, location, keyword and language.
API Parameters
Company
-
- Name
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company_id - Required
- Required
- Description
-
The company's Glassdoor ID, the number after
Ein its Glassdoor URL, such as9079forhttps://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm.
Filters
-
- Name
-
sort_by - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
The order of reviews:
relevance(the default),most_recent,oldest,highest_rated,lowest_ratedormost_helpful.
-
- Name
-
rating - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Only reviews with this overall star rating, from
1to5. Withq, reviews with this rating or higher.
-
- Name
-
employment_type - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Only reviewers with these employment types:
regular,part_time,contract,internorfreelance. Separate several with commas. Defaults toregular,part_time.
-
- Name
-
only_current_employees - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Set to
truefor reviews from current employees only. Defaults tofalse.
-
- Name
-
job_title - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Only reviews from reviewers with this job title, such as
Software Engineer.
-
- Name
-
location - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Only reviews from this city, state or country, such as
New York,CaliforniaorIndia. The matched location is returned insearch_information.location.
-
- Name
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q - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Only reviews that mention this keyword, such as
remote work.
-
- Name
-
language - Required
- Optional
- Description
-
The language of the reviews:
en(the default),fr,de,es,it,nlorpt.
Engine
-
- Name
-
engine - Required
- Required
- Description
-
Parameter defines an engine that will be used to retrieve real-time data. It must be set to
glassdoor_reviews.
API key
-
- Name
-
api_key - Required
- Required
- Description
-
The
api_keyauthenticates your requests. Use it as a query parameter (https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY) or in the Authorization header (Bearer YOUR_API_KEY).
Zero Data Retention
-
- Name
-
zero_retention - Enterprise Only
- Enterprise Only
- Required
- Optional
- Description
-
Set this parameter to
trueto disable all logging and persistent storage. No request parameters, HTML, or JSON responses are stored or logged. Suitable for high-compliance use cases. Debugging and support may be limited while enabled.
API Examples
Company Reviews
https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?company_id=9079&engine=glassdoor_reviews
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- requests
import requests
url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
"engine": "glassdoor_reviews",
"company_id": "9079"
}
response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)
{
"search_metadata": {
"id": "search_6QNVPZBKo24jc18Jp8y471M9",
"status": "Success",
"created_at": "2026-11-10T01:25:16Z",
"request_time_taken": 1.02,
"parsing_time_taken": 0.0,
"total_time_taken": 1.02,
"request_url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm",
"html_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_6QNVPZBKo24jc18Jp8y471M9.html",
"json_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_6QNVPZBKo24jc18Jp8y471M9"
},
"search_parameters": {
"engine": "glassdoor_reviews",
"company_id": "9079"
},
"search_information": {
"total_results": 51227,
"all_reviews_count": 74114,
"reviews_last_7_days": 51,
"reviews_last_30_days": 204
},
"company": {
"company_id": 9079,
"name": "Google",
"legal_name": "Google Inc.",
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm",
"logo": "https://media.glassdoor.com/sql/9079/google-squarelogo-1441130773284.png",
"website": "https://goo.gle/4ehVuXi",
"headquarters": "Mountain View, CA",
"size": "10000+ Employees",
"type": "Company - Public",
"revenue": "$10+ billion (USD)",
"founded": 1998,
"industry": "Internet & Web Services",
"sector": "Information Technology",
"description": "Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have over a hundred thousand employees and over one hundred offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. So whether you want to be a part of developing innovative technology, campaigns, products or partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. To learn more about our job opportunities, teams, offices, benefits and workplace culture, visit careers.google.com.",
"mission": "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.",
"ceo": {
"name": "Sundar Pichai",
"title": "CEO",
"thumbnail": "https://media.glassdoor.com/people/sql/9079/google-sundar-pichai.png"
}
},
"ratings": {
"overall": 4.3,
"reviews_count": 55062,
"work_life_balance": 4.2,
"culture_and_values": 4.2,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 4.4,
"career_opportunities": 4.1,
"compensation_and_benefits": 4.5,
"senior_management": 3.8,
"recommend_to_friend": 87,
"ceo_approval": 83,
"positive_business_outlook": 82,
"distribution": {
"overall": {
"one": 473,
"two": 506,
"three": 2105,
"four": 5871,
"five": 10791
},
"work_life_balance": {
"one": 434,
"two": 551,
"three": 1517,
"four": 2548,
"five": 5390
},
"culture_and_values": {
"one": 471,
"two": 534,
"three": 1423,
"four": 2568,
"five": 5544
},
"diversity_and_inclusion": {
"one": 388,
"two": 389,
"three": 1135,
"four": 2362,
"five": 6139
},
"career_opportunities": {
"one": 423,
"two": 602,
"three": 1704,
"four": 2855,
"five": 5308
},
"compensation_and_benefits": {
"one": 208,
"two": 192,
"three": 885,
"four": 2638,
"five": 6734
},
"senior_management": {
"one": 849,
"two": 867,
"three": 1912,
"four": 2615,
"five": 4149
},
"recommend_to_friend": {
"recommend": 7177,
"would_not_recommend": 1259
}
}
},
"reviews": [
{
"position": 1,
"review_id": 105562541,
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Google-E9079-RVW105562541.htm",
"title": "Great perks, but not as progressive as you think.",
"rating": 3,
"date": "2026-09-12",
"iso_date": "2026-09-12T23:21:41",
"pros": "food, amenities, large networking opportunities, strong resume builder. Nice offices. Employees are willing to help and share knowledge.",
"cons": "Sales at Google is a highly gamified, strictly metrics driven role focused on checking off boxes, and toxic middle managers will frequently remind you of that . It is jarring how retrogressive the method for tracking productivity is at company that strives to be forward thinking. There is little room for original thinking, creativity, or unique perspectives in this role. The goals are not attainable for most teams, and success is more often than not dependent on the quality of the book you receive. Hard work does not necessarily equate to success in this position, managers only care about a very specific, largely unrealistic outcomes. The aggressive gamification of this role creates a huge conflict of interest when it comes to building genuine client relations.",
"advice": "Do you ever ask yourselves why it is this difficult to sell a good product? (which Google is.) I've had an easier time selling inferior products at other companies, simply because clients liked us more.\nI find it hard to believe upper management isn't aware of the reputation Google Strategists have to clients and agencies. Their suspicion of strategists is a result of contradictory goals that leave little room for a natural relationship to unfold with a client.\nSupport your sellers: re structure incentives that don't place client relationships in a pressure cooker that corrode trust, and focus on creating a filtration system that ensures sellers receive clients who are willing to actively engage with Google. I'm not sure if the aggressive goals are a psychological tactic, but you must also be aware that they aren't being met and it isn't a mystery as to why.",
"job_title": "Account Strategist",
"employment_type": "regular",
"is_current_employee": true,
"years_employed": 0,
"ratings": {
"work_life_balance": 3,
"culture_and_values": 3,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 4,
"career_opportunities": 5,
"compensation_and_benefits": 3,
"senior_management": 2
},
"is_recommended": false,
"ceo_approval": "no_opinion",
"business_outlook": "positive",
"helpful_votes": 4,
"not_helpful_votes": 0,
"is_featured": false,
"language": "en"
},
{
"position": 2,
"review_id": 105903018,
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Google-E9079-RVW105903018.htm",
"title": "Free lunch and autonomy can't offset toxic environment",
"rating": 2,
"date": "2026-10-08",
"iso_date": "2026-10-08T17:50:26",
"pros": "Enjoy a complimentary lunch while you're in the office. Experience self-service autonomy and a diverse range of things to work on. Connect with key customers and attend high-level executive meetings.",
"cons": "Coin-operated, short-sighted, extremely chatoic, lacking a unified vision, with zero onboarding, zero work-life balance and unrealistic expectations, poor compensation, poor opportunity for advancement, and bureaucratic. Borderline toxic.",
"advice": "Senior leadership prioritizes immediate sales over all else. Customer success is only tangental to signing a big contract to make the boat payment. The entire organization is obsessed with OKRs and lacks interest in team and career development. If objectives don't align with another team, there's no resolution path, no escalations, and absolutely no long-term plan.",
"job_title": "Customer Engineer II",
"location": "Chicago, IL",
"employment_type": "regular",
"is_current_employee": true,
"years_employed": 2,
"ratings": {
"work_life_balance": 1,
"culture_and_values": 1,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 3,
"career_opportunities": 1,
"compensation_and_benefits": 1,
"senior_management": 2
},
"is_recommended": false,
"business_outlook": "neutral",
"helpful_votes": 1,
"not_helpful_votes": 0,
"is_featured": false,
"language": "en"
},
{
"position": 3,
"review_id": 105678361,
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Google-E9079-RVW105678361.htm",
"title": "Creative culture diminished by layoffs and AI reliance",
"rating": 3,
"date": "2026-09-21",
"iso_date": "2026-09-21T18:05:42",
"pros": "Historically, Google had an incredible company culture where morale was high and creativity thrived. Prior to 2023, employees were empowered to take bold risks, have true autonomy, and launch genuinely exciting, innovative products.",
"cons": "Following continuous rounds of layoffs, the environment shifted from celebrating creativity to being dominated by perfectionism and psychological safety issues. Fear of job loss has stifled original thinking, leaving employees hesitant to dissent or try new approaches. Furthermore, the company has increasingly relied on AI to dictate the roles of designers, PMs, and engineers. This has resulted in a loss of product innovation, forcing teams to output cookie-cutter Gemini concepts that often fail to serve the actual end-user.",
"advice": "Restore autonomy to your human talent. Rely less on forcing standardized AI integrations across every product and give your teams the psychological safety to innovate, experiment, and put the user first again.",
"job_title": "Senior User Experience Designer",
"location": "Austin, TX",
"employment_type": "regular",
"is_current_employee": true,
"years_employed": 9,
"ratings": {
"work_life_balance": 2,
"culture_and_values": 3,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 3,
"career_opportunities": 3,
"compensation_and_benefits": 5,
"senior_management": 2
},
"is_recommended": false,
"ceo_approval": "disapprove",
"helpful_votes": 1,
"not_helpful_votes": 0,
"is_featured": false,
"language": "en"
}
],
"pagination": {
"current": 1,
"next": 2,
"total_pages": 5123
}
}
1-Star Reviews
https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?company_id=9079&engine=glassdoor_reviews&rating=1
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- requests
import requests
url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
"engine": "glassdoor_reviews",
"company_id": "9079",
"rating": "1"
}
response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)
{
"search_metadata": {
"id": "search_9jGd7bMw38EDuYkypmJ8v5YA",
"status": "Success",
"created_at": "2026-11-10T01:25:32Z",
"request_time_taken": 1.49,
"parsing_time_taken": 0.0,
"total_time_taken": 1.49,
"request_url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm",
"html_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_9jGd7bMw38EDuYkypmJ8v5YA.html",
"json_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_9jGd7bMw38EDuYkypmJ8v5YA"
},
"search_parameters": {
"engine": "glassdoor_reviews",
"company_id": "9079",
"rating": "1"
},
"search_information": {
"total_results": 1203,
"all_reviews_count": 74114,
"reviews_last_7_days": 0,
"reviews_last_30_days": 4
},
"company": {
"company_id": 9079,
"name": "Google",
"legal_name": "Google Inc.",
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079.htm",
"logo": "https://media.glassdoor.com/sql/9079/google-squarelogo-1441130773284.png",
"website": "https://goo.gle/4ehVuXi",
"headquarters": "Mountain View, CA",
"size": "10000+ Employees",
"type": "Company - Public",
"revenue": "$10+ billion (USD)",
"founded": 1998,
"industry": "Internet & Web Services",
"sector": "Information Technology",
"description": "Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have over a hundred thousand employees and over one hundred offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. So whether you want to be a part of developing innovative technology, campaigns, products or partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. To learn more about our job opportunities, teams, offices, benefits and workplace culture, visit careers.google.com.",
"mission": "Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.",
"ceo": {
"name": "Sundar Pichai",
"title": "CEO",
"thumbnail": "https://media.glassdoor.com/people/sql/9079/google-sundar-pichai.png"
}
},
"ratings": {
"overall": 1.0,
"reviews_count": 1298,
"work_life_balance": 1.7,
"culture_and_values": 1.5,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 1.8,
"career_opportunities": 1.6,
"compensation_and_benefits": 2.7,
"senior_management": 1.3,
"recommend_to_friend": 9,
"ceo_approval": 12,
"positive_business_outlook": 19,
"distribution": {
"overall": {
"one": 1297,
"two": 0,
"three": 0,
"four": 0,
"five": 0
},
"work_life_balance": {
"one": 548,
"two": 101,
"three": 115,
"four": 44,
"five": 81
},
"culture_and_values": {
"one": 632,
"two": 96,
"three": 65,
"four": 22,
"five": 55
},
"diversity_and_inclusion": {
"one": 421,
"two": 74,
"three": 89,
"four": 35,
"five": 79
},
"career_opportunities": {
"one": 613,
"two": 126,
"three": 88,
"four": 31,
"five": 60
},
"compensation_and_benefits": {
"one": 395,
"two": 94,
"three": 130,
"four": 130,
"five": 157
},
"senior_management": {
"one": 706,
"two": 69,
"three": 63,
"four": 19,
"five": 40
},
"recommend_to_friend": {
"recommend": 109,
"would_not_recommend": 736
}
}
},
"reviews": [
{
"position": 1,
"review_id": 104059583,
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Google-E9079-RVW104059583.htm",
"title": "Toxic environment with limited career growth opportunities",
"rating": 1,
"date": "2026-05-21",
"iso_date": "2026-05-21T03:55:00",
"pros": "Not much, lots of the skills can't be transfered to real world.",
"cons": "The data center environment is toxic, deeply unprofessional, and functions like a dysfunctional mom-and-pop shop rather than a major tech company. Leadership relies shockingly on primitive tools like spreadsheets to manage massive operations. Career mobility is non-existent; data center staff are actively bottlenecked and trapped in their roles. The workplace culture is incredibly immature and cliquey, filled with unmotivated individuals coasting for a paycheck. Worse, the interview and promotion processes are completely corrupted by politics, where managers and biased interview loops actively work to sabotage external or ambitious talent to protect their own mediocrity.",
"advice": "Stop hiring and promoting incompetent leaders who lack basic social and communication skills. The current leadership pipeline is a failure, rewarding political compliance over actual merit. Management desperately needs to implement rigorous vetting standards to weed out toxic, unqualified managers who tank team morale and actively sabotage their subordinates.",
"job_title": "Data Center Operations Technician",
"location": "Las Vegas, NV",
"employment_type": "regular",
"is_current_employee": false,
"years_employed": 4,
"ratings": {
"work_life_balance": 1,
"culture_and_values": 1,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 1,
"career_opportunities": 1,
"compensation_and_benefits": 3,
"senior_management": 1
},
"is_recommended": false,
"ceo_approval": "disapprove",
"business_outlook": "negative",
"helpful_votes": 1,
"not_helpful_votes": 0,
"is_featured": false,
"language": "en"
},
{
"position": 2,
"review_id": 105252765,
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Google-E9079-RVW105252765.htm",
"title": "Valuable lessons in resilience overshadowed by stagnant culture",
"rating": 1,
"date": "2026-08-19",
"iso_date": "2026-08-19T11:21:50",
"pros": "This environment offers a masterclass in crisis management and self-advocacy, as navigating constant operational friction builds bulletproof resilience. Additionally, experiencing firsthand mismanagement provides a clear blueprint of toxic leadership traits to avoid, helping you establish rigorous standards for your next career move.",
"cons": "The content department in Age Assurance team suffers from a stagnant culture that actively blocks career progression, hoards high-profile visibility, and makes promotions nearly impossible despite requests for higher-impact work. High turnover, frequent role shuffling, and widespread instability compound these issues, alongside ongoing operational struggles with remote work logistics, compliance, and payroll accuracy.",
"employment_type": "regular",
"is_current_employee": true,
"years_employed": 0,
"ratings": {
"work_life_balance": 2,
"culture_and_values": 2,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 2,
"career_opportunities": 1,
"compensation_and_benefits": 4,
"senior_management": 1
},
"is_recommended": false,
"ceo_approval": "disapprove",
"business_outlook": "negative",
"helpful_votes": 0,
"not_helpful_votes": 0,
"is_featured": false,
"language": "en"
},
{
"position": 3,
"review_id": 103525605,
"link": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Google-E9079-RVW103525605.htm",
"title": "Abusive workplace with cruel managers.",
"rating": 1,
"date": "2026-04-11",
"iso_date": "2026-04-11T13:40:50",
"pros": "The Google brand and working with some talented people.",
"cons": "Workplace abuse and cruelty. I was on a team where my manager suddenly changed my role without warning. Treated me as if I was some dummy without a voice or value. I’m a person with a family and story. The manager that did this is sick preferring to protect yourself and your own interests. There was no recognition of diverse leadership perspectives or approaches.",
"advice": "The company has a well crafted exterior narrative but is as rotten as others. Tech seems to not learn lessons and is becoming exploitative.",
"job_title": "Engineering",
"location": "New York, NY",
"employment_type": "regular",
"is_current_employee": false,
"years_employed": 4,
"ratings": {
"work_life_balance": 1,
"culture_and_values": 1,
"diversity_and_inclusion": 1,
"career_opportunities": 1,
"compensation_and_benefits": 3,
"senior_management": 1
},
"is_recommended": false,
"ceo_approval": "disapprove",
"business_outlook": "negative",
"helpful_votes": 2,
"not_helpful_votes": 0,
"is_featured": false,
"language": "en"
}
],
"pagination": {
"current": 1,
"next": 2,
"total_pages": 121
}
}